Out with Matt

Matt and I went out for a morning on the town. We stopped at Wacker first to do a check. The Wacker pair, Rahn and Joe, are currently incubating eggs, but Rahn didn’t get up to let us have a peek.

After that, off to UIC. We did a quick circuit of the bottom of the building first, looking for prey items. Matt found a really beautiful woodcock wing, so I put it in my pocket to take back to the museum.

[editorial note: I completely forgot about this wing until days later, our cats Puck and Hobbes were going NUTS trying to get my coat down off the coat rack. I chased them off, but they would not leave it alone. I thought maybe there was a spider or something, so I pulled it off the rack to check it out. That’s when I noticed my coat smelled a bit “off”. Yuck! I guess I’ll get it dry cleaned — my coat, not the wing]

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IN CASE OF EMERGENCY

If you find a peregrine on the ground, Mary Hennen has put up some information along with emergency contact numbers for the Chicago region on the FIELD MUSEUM'S PEREGRINE FALCON PAGE

For those of you not from the Chicago region, the information on what to do when you find a downed peregrine is still valuable, even if the numbers are not. It is highly probable your own area has monitors. My suggestion would be to try wildlife rescue organizations or rehabbers, Animal Control and/or any zoo or natural history museum type place in the area.